Kyle Connor scored 1:45 into overtime to lift the host Winnipeg Jets to a 3-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.

Connor wristed a shot past goalie Sam Montembeault after taking a pass from Mark Scheifele, with Josh Morrissey collecting his team-high ninth assist of the season on the play.

Pierre-Luc Dubois and Connor each had a goal and an assist and Blake Wheeler added a goal for Winnipeg, which won for the fourth time in five games.

Nick Suzuki notched a goal and an assist, Kirby Dach contributed a goal and Cole Caufield had two assists for the Canadiens, who lost their second game in a row.

Winnipeg outshot Montreal 36-22, including 11-4 in the third period, with Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck and Montembeault finishing with 20 and 33 saves, respectively.

Suzuki gave Montreal a 1-0 lead at 6:43 of the first period when he wristed a shot over Hellebuyck after receiving a cross-ice pass from Caufield. David Savard also assisted on Suzuki’s sixth goal of the season.

The Jets equalized on a power play with 2:32 left in the opening period when Dubois wristed a shot past Montembeault. Connor and Sam Gagner assisted on Dubois’ fourth tally of the season.

The teams traded goals in similar fashion in less than a minute early in the second period.

Dach scored on a rebound when Hellebuyck couldn’t handle Suzuki’s shot at 4:54. But shortly after, Wheeler made Montembeault pay for his inability to make a clean save on Dubois’ wrist shot to tie the game 2-2 at 5:35.

The Jets have defeated the Canadiens in six of the teams’ past seven regular-season meetings, but Montreal swept a conference semifinal series vs. Winnipeg in 2021.

The Canadiens, who went 2-1-1 during their four-game road trip, host the Pacific Division-leading Las Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday before visiting the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday.

Winnipeg continues its three-game homestand against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday before welcoming the Dallas Stars on Tuesday.

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Trent Frederic scored the tiebreaking goal 6:04 into the third period as the visiting Boston Bruins continued their early-season surge with 5-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday night.

The Bruins improved their NHL-best record to 10-1-0 and won their seventh straight. It is Boston’s first seven-game winning streak since winning eight straight since early in the 2019-20 season and the first time it opened with 10 wins in 11 games.

Frederic netted the game-winner after getting into a second-period fight with New York’s Barclay Goodrow.

He scored his second goal of the season after getting a backhanded pass from Nick Foligno after New York goalie Igor Shesterkin could not control the rebound of Connor Clifton’s shot. After getting the pass from Foligno, Frederic released a wrist shot from the right circle and that caromed off Goodrow’s skate and in.

David Pastrnak scored for the fifth time in six games early in the first period. Charlie Coyle and Jake DeBrusk also tallied in the third when Boston outshot New York 17-4, with Hampus Lindholm adding an empty-net tally.

Jimmy Vesey and Adam Fox scored for the Rangers, who saw their modest three-game winning streak end.

Boston goalie Linus Ullmark made 18 saves and remained unbeaten (8-0-0).

Shesterkin finished with 32 saves and took his first regulation loss this season (6-1-2).

Before Frederic scored, the Bruins took a 2-1 lead 2:56 into the third when Coyle scored for the fourth straight game by converting a tap-in after getting by New York defenseman Jacob Trouba and converting the cross-ice pass from Lindholm.

Fox tied it less than a minute after Coyle scored by getting a shot from above the left circle over Ullmark’s glove. After Frederic’s game-winner, DeBrusk lifted a slap shot from the left circle over Shesterkin’s left pad with 9:41 remaining.

Pastrnak continued his hot start almost by accident after Taylor Hall blocked a shot by New York defenseman Zac Jones. After getting possession, Pastrnak streaked down the right side, eluded a check by Vesey and his backhanded pass from the bottom of the right circle intended for Hall deflected into the net.

New York tied it with 9:39 remaining when Zibanejad spotted Vesey streaking to the net by defenseman Anton Stralman. Zibanejad then made a cross-ice pass to Vesey, who converted the tap-in for his first goal with the Rangers in over three years.

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Alex Ovechkin tied Detroit legend Gordie Howe for the most all-time goals with one team, but the Red Wings defeated the visiting Washington Capitals 3-1 on Thursday.

Ovechkin’s 786th goal with the Capitals came during the second period.

Howe played in 1,687 regular-season games during 25 seasons with the Red Wings (1946-1971). Ovechkin reached the milestone in 1,285 games during 17 seasons with the Capitals.

Ovechkin’s goal was his sixth this season, but Washington couldn’t muster another, while the Red Wings broke a 1-1 tie with 3:50 remaining on Andrew Copp’s first goal with Detroit. Copp, who played for the New York Rangers last season, signed with Detroit as a free agent during the offseason.

Dylan Larkin had a goal and an assist, while Lucas Raymond had the other goal for the Red Wings. Ville Husso made 33 saves for Detroit, which is 4-1-1 at home this season.

Darcy Kuemper stopped 23 shots for the Capitals.

The teams had nine shots apiece in the first period, but it ended without a goal.

Ovechkin broke the deadlock with a wrist shot from the left circle at 7:11 of the second period. He took a pass from Evgeny Kuznetsov, who made a steal in the Detroit zone, and fired the puck past Husso.

The Red Wings tied the tally at 14:58 of the period, with the Capitals’ Lars Eller in the penalty box for slashing Larkin. Dominik Kubalik sent the puck toward the net and Raymond banged it in near the goalpost. David Perron collected the second assist.

Detroit killed off a hooking penalty against Filip Zadina early in the third period.

Copp scored off a feed from Adam Erne, who was behind the Washington net. Copp slipped the puck through Kuemper’s legs. Larkin was credited with the second assist.

The Capitals had a late power play when Michael Rasmussen was whistled for tripping. They couldn’t take advantage, forcing them to pull Kuemper for an extra skater.

Larkin scored an empty-netter off a Copp feed with 28 seconds left.

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Mark Stone had a goal and an assist and Chandler Stephenson had a short-handed goal as the visiting Vegas Golden Knights jumped out to an early four-goal lead and then held on for their sixth consecutive victory, 5-4, over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.

William Carrier, Reilly Smith and Zach Whitecloud also scored for Vegas, which improved to 5-0-0 all-time in Ottawa. The Golden Knights, who have won 10 of their first 12 games under Bruce Cassidy, have also won their last seven in a row against the Senators.

Logan Thompson made 42 saves for his sixth win of the season for the Golden Knights who jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the first 30 minutes.

Claude Giroux and Tim Stutzle each scored two goals and Brady Tkachuk had three assists for Ottawa which dropped its fourth straight game. Anton Forsberg stopped 14 of 19 shots before giving way to Cam Talbot midway through the second period. Talbot, coming back from a preseason rib injury, made 13 saves in his Senators debut.

Stone gave Vegas a 1-0 lead 82 seconds into the contest with his fourth goal of the season, intercepting a Thomas Chabot clearing pass in the low slot and then firing a wrist inside the left post.

Ottawa tied it at the 4:12 mark when Giroux, dumping the puck in from the neutral zone during a line change, one-hopped a shot over Thompson’s glove.

The Golden Knights then scored four goals in the span of 21 minutes to increase their lead to 5-1. Smith made it 2-1 with a power-play goal, finishing a 2-on-1 with William Karlsson with a shot into the top left corner for his third goal of the season.

Whitecloud made it 3-1 with 32 seconds left in the first period when he one-timed a Stone pass from the slot for his first goal of the season.

Stephenson increased the lead to 4-1 at the 5:15 mark of the second period with a backhand shot around the left pad of Forsberg at the end of a 2-on-1 break with Nicolas Roy after a Stutzle giveaway.

Carrier made it 5-1 at the 10:14 mark, scooping up the puck in the slot after Alex DeBrincat fanned on a pass and then backhanding a shot through the pads of Forsberg.

Ottawa cut it to 5-3 later in the period on a power-play goal by Giroux, who one-timed a Jake Sanderson feed for his fifth goal of the season, and Stutzle’s rebound of a Tkachuk shot near the end of the period. Stutzle followed that up with his third goal of the season early in the third period to make it 5-4, one-timing a Tkachuk pass following a Brett Howden turnover in his own zone.

The Senators pulled Talbot for an extra attacker with 1:50 left but managed just a Giroux wrist shot that Thompson gloved.

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Sebastian Aho scored in the shootout’s sixth round as the Carolina Hurricanes won their third straight game, beating the host Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday.

After Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen stopped Corey Perry in the top of the sixth — the netminder’s fifth save in six shots — Aho deked right on Andrei Vasilevskiy and tucked home the winning tally on the left side.

Carolina’s Martin Necas scored his sixth goal, with an assist from Brent Burns — giving each five-game point streaks. Seth Jarvis and Brady Skjei also found the net, and Andersen posted 23 saves.

Defenseman Calvin De Haan (undisclosed) logged 12:03 of ice time in his first game since Oct. 22 as Carolina won for just the fourth time in the past 17 games in Tampa (4-8-5).

The Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov stretched his goal streak to five games and points streak to nine. Ross Colton and Nicholas Paul scored. Vasilevskiy had a busy night, tying his career high with 54 saves, as his club lost for the first time in four games.

Tampa Bay played its second straight game without defenseman Victor Hedman (upper body).

In the first of three meetings this season and the only one in Florida, Jarvis ripped a wrister from the left circle by Vasilevskiy as the first power play ended. His third goal of the season came at 8:29 on an assist from Paul Stastny.

The Lightning watched Carolina outshoot them 15-9 in the period — equaling the entire shot total Tuesday by Ottawa in Tampa Bay’s 4-3 victory over the Senators.

The Lightning, which went 1-for-8 on the power play Tuesday, appeared to tally on the first of double-minor penalties by Carolina’s Jalen Chatfield in the second period. But Vladislav Namestnikov’s goal was overturned for using a kicking motion.

However, Colton put his club on the board at 5:50 when he redirected Mikhail Sergachev’s point shot. Colton’s power-play goal — his third marker thus far — tied the game at 1.

After leading a quick two-on-two rush, Paul put the Lightning up 2-1 from in close at 9:19; he bladed in a pass from Steven Stamkos. Necas’ power-play goal nearly five minutes later evened the match at 2.

On a full five-on-three power play, Kucherov whipped in the go-ahead marker with one minute remaining in the frame.

In the third, Skjei took advantage of a turnover and buried his second goal, a short-handed one at 13:34.

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The Ottawa Senators activated goaltender Cam Talbot off injured reserve Thursday ahead of their home game against the Vegas Golden Knights.

Talbot will be the No. 2 goalie Thursday night, available if necessary to relieve starter Anton Forsberg.

It will be the first time Talbot dresses for a regular-season game as a member of the Senators. Ottawa acquired him from the Minnesota Wild over the offseason straight up for goalie Filip Gustavsson. But Talbot suffered a rib injury during training camp in September.

“It feels good,” Talbot told reporters. “It’s a grind. You never know when these things are actually gonna heal themselves. There’s nothing you can do to hurry the process along. I just tried to stay ready, stay in shape and it’s nice to be back out there with the boys finally.”

The 35-year-old journeyman begins his 10th campaign with his sixth NHL team after time with the New York Rangers (2013-15), Edmonton Oilers (2015-19), Philadelphia Flyers (2019), Calgary Flames (2019-20) and Wild. Talbot compiled a career record of 201-142-34 with a .915 save percentage and a 2.63 goals-against average.

Without Talbot available, Forsberg has started eight of the Senators’ first nine games entering Thursday. In that time he has gone 3-5-0 with a .909 save percentage and a 3.18 GAA.

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